September / October 2003

In each of its 18 searches for new faculty this year, Rollins hired its number-one candidate—an event that seldom happens in higher education, according to Dean of the Faculty Roger Casey. "This fact means that not only did we recruit the best candidates available for our faculty, but that these talented faculty also chose Rollins over other schools where they had offers," Casey said. "Rollins has become not only a first-choice school for undergraduate applicants, but a first-choice college for professors, as well."

• Dexter S. Boniface, Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor of Political Science, whose teaching interests include Latin American and Brazilian politics, politics of market reforms, political economy of development, authoritarianism and democratization, state-society relations, and knowledge of accumulation and methodology.

• David A. Charles, Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Dance, whose teaching interests include global improvisational movements and structures, marginalized traditions, and traditional performance modes.

• Martha S. Cheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, whose teaching interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, argumentation theory, ethos and the individual agency, narrative theory, critical ready and writing, and technical writing.

• Rosana Diaz-Zambrana, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, whose teaching interests include modern and contemporary Spanish-American literature, 19th- and 20th-century Brazilian literature, and 19th- and 20th-century French literature.

• Michael M. Gunter, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, whose teaching interests include international relations, political economy, environmental affairs, environmental law, security, arms control, and organization. Gunter was a visiting professor at Rollins last year.

• Dana Hargrove, Assistant Professor of Art, whose teaching interests include painting and drawing, computer graphics, and two-dimensional design.

• Alden J. Moe, Ph.D., Richard James Mertz Professor of Education, whose teaching interests include elementary reading education, secondary reading/writing education, language/communication development, and children’s literature.

• Jennifer S. Queen, Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor of Psychology, whose teaching interests include cognitive and development psychology, research methodology, speech perception and language development, and cognitive neuropsychology.

Prof. Ben Balak, of the Economics Department, submitted the final draft of his first book based on his Ph.D. dissertation for which he is under contract with Routledge to be published in early 2004. It’s titled: The Lowercase-t truth about McCloskey, and discusses Deidre McCloskey and the study of rhetoric and philosophy of language as it relates to economics. He has also written 2 articles ("Superpower" & "Hodgskin, Thomas") for the Encyclopedia of Capitalism (produced by Golson Books, NY, published by Facts On File, NY). It should by published in 2004.

Prof. Rick Bommelje, of the Communication Department, presented "Leadership Coaching and the Dynamic Listening Process"as well as, "Listen and Lead the World: Global Listening Leader Insights & Strategies at the International Listening Association Convention in Haninge, Sweden, July 16 – 20, 2003. At the Association for Business Communication Spring Conference, April 2003, in Toronto, Canada, he presented "Listening and Conflict Leadership." Dr. Bommelje,

Prof. Robert Smither, and Prof. John Houston, authored the paper Interpersonal Competitiveness and Career Success, which was delivered by Dr. Smither at the Interamerican Congress of Psychology in Lima, Peru, July 2003.

Dr. Arthur Blumenthal, Director of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, is currently working with his wife, Kären, on a book for the general reader titled "Loving Art: A Path to Astonishing Pleasures." (The book is drawn from his "How to Look at Art" course offered to the public for the past 14 years.) This past year, he organized three exhibitions at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum: "Honoré Daumier! Paintings, Sculpture & Prints from the UCLA Hammer Museum" and the accompanying "Daumier's World: Realism to Impressionism from the Collection," and "Treasures 2003," which opened on May 31, 2003, and is still on view. He organized a Daumier Symposium in conjunction with the Daumier show, and gave a formal lecture on the exhibit as part of the symposium panel (which had TPJ scholars on it and Prof. Susan Libby of the art department) and gave three public gallery talks. In February, he was on a juried grant panel for Florida's Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, in Tallahassee. For the tenth year in a row, he is included in "Who's Who in American Art" and "Who's Who in the Southeast."

Prof. Dexter Boniface, of the Politics Department, presented a paper at the Latin American Studies Association, in Dallas March 2003, on the labor movement in contemporary Brazil. In April, a collaborative research project he completed on labor movements and economic reforms was published in Comparative Politics as "Old Carrots, New Sticks: Explaining Labor Strategies toward Economic Reform in Eastern Europe and Latin America," (co-authored with Heather Tafel).

Prof. Carolyn Carpan, of the Olin Library, published (2003, Spring). Representations of endometriosis in the popular press: "The career woman’s disease", Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, 27 (2), 32-40. In addition, she published book reviews in Voice of Youth Advocates

Prof. Julian Chambliss, of the History Department, had a panel accepted for the Social Science History Association meeting this November. His paper is entitled "Chicago and Atlanta: Businessmen in the Heyday of the City Beautiful Movement"

Prof. Gloria Cook, Artist-in-Residence of the Music Department has reported the following performances: Solo Performance, Faculty Recital at the Morse Museum, 2003 Solo Performance, Faculty Recital 2003, Rollins College Solo Performance, Faculty Recital 2003, Mayflower Retirement Center, Winter Park, Florida Duo Performance, recorded with Cynthia Lawing of Davidson College for the Associated Colleges of the South website 2003 Joint Performance, Ed LeRoy’s Vocal Recital 2003, University Club of Winter Park, Florida Orchestral Performance, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Choir Concert Series 2003, Knowles Memorial Chapel, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida

Prof. Don Davison, of the Politics Department, presented "Member Ambition and the Behavioral Consequences of Institutional Rules in Congress" at the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003. A revised version of this paper is currently under review at Political Science Quarterly. On Sept 20, he was on a panel at the Sweet Briar College Conference on Race and the Law. Inivted panelists are, Eugene Hickock, Undersecretary of Education, (Bush Administration), Elaine Jones, General Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Abigail Thernstrom, Harvard Univesity and the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Eileen McDonough, civil rights historian and lawyer, and Prof. Davison He gave a presentation on minority voting rights. He finished a quantitative instructional module on "Continuity and Change in American Elections, 1952-1996" and has been invited to present this module at the meeting of the ICPSR at the University of Michigan, Oct. 10.

Prof. Marisa Ensor, of the Anthropology Department, recently published "Faith in Reconstruction: Religion and Humanitarian Assistance". Chapter in a forthcoming book on Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras She is co-editing. In progress. "Disaster Evangelism: Religion as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Mitch Honduras". International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. August 2003, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Dr. Mark Freeman, Director of Personal Counseling, is President-Elect of the American College Counseling Association. ACCA is a division of the American Counseling Association Recently he had an article accepted for the Journal for the Professional Counselor: Development of a spiritual survey for counselors: A factor analytic approach. In February, 2003, he presented with S. Andreas, The high profile counseling center At the Georgia College Counselors Association, St. Simons Island, GA. Other invited presentations include Dream interpretation at the Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development, American Counseling Association in March of 2003 at Anaheim, CA. and Crisis Intervention at the Suicide Prevention Conference at Stetson University in February of 2003.

Prof. Elise A. Friedland, of the Art Department, published an article, "The Roman Marble Sculptures from the North Hall of the East Baths at Gerasa," in the American Journal of Archaeology this July (107: 413-448). She has another article, "Art as Cultural Artifact: Roman Sculpture in the Semitic East," coming out in November in One Hundred Years of American Archaeology in the Levant: Proceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research Centennial Celebration, Washington, DC, April 2000, (edited by Douglas Clark and Victor Matthews, pp. 327-340). From November 9-13, she will deliver lectures in Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, and Ithaca, NY, on her research as the Cohn Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America.

Dr. Elaine Gray, Information Technology Teaching Fellow, will have her book Conscious Choices: A Model for Self Directed Learning, released this fall by Prentice Hall. The textbook leads learners through the processes of developing the characteristics of emotional intelligence, increasing critical thinking skills and integrating personal values into principles that guide their moment to moment choices.

Prof. Eileen Gregory, of the Biology Department, was appointed in June to the College Board Development Committee that develops the Advanced Placement Biology Course description and exam. Also in early June she joined just under 400 other college and high school biology teachers in grading the essays from 104,000 AP Biology exams. This year she was in charge of the grading of the overseas and alternate exams.

Prof. Michael Gunter, of the Politics Department, received a grant to study environmental problems in Central Europe this past summer. Part of the Global Partners Project, Gunter was one of 16 faculty from the ACS, Midwest, and Great Lakes area colleges that participated. The group spent three weeks meeting with government, business, and NGO interests in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and Hungary.

Professors Paul Harris and John Houston, of the Psychology Department, report the following publication: Houston, J. M., Harris, P. B., & Norman, M. (2003). The Aggressive Driving Behavior Scale: Developing a self-report measure of unsafe driving practices. North American Journal of Psychology, 5, 269-278.

Prof. Madeline Kovarik of the Education Department, published · "First Evaluation! First Success" in The New Teacher Advocate, Winter 2003. "Jig-Saw: An Instructional Technique That Works!" was presented at Brevard County Public Schools District Inservice Day, August 2003. "Enriching Classroom Instruction Through Multicultural Bibliotherapy" was accepted for presentation, Global Awareness Society International, Twelfth Annual Conference, June 2003. "Intriguing, Inspiring, and Innovative Ideas to Make a Difference in Your Reading Classroom" was co-presented at the International Reading Association Conference, Orlando, FL., May 2003. "Changing Faces" was presented at the Florida Association for Multicultural Education, Tampa, FL., April, 2003. "Multicultural Literature in the Elementary Classroom" was presented at the National Association for Multicultural Education, Regional Conference, March, 2003

Prof. Susan Libby, of the Art Department, presented a paper at the International Society for 18th-Century Studies Association conference, held at UCLA, called,"Race,Science, and Enlightenment in GIrodet's Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley" in June. Over the summer she conducted resaerch on this subject in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Musée de l'Homme, thanks to aCritchfield Grant.

Prof. Susan Cohn Lackman, of the Music Department, spent most of June touring Scotland with the assistance of an Ashforth Grant, studying Jewish music in Scotland. The Jewish community in the country is centered around Glasgow, with the larger number of synagogues, and Edinburgh. She confides that she was incredulous, and delighted to hear, in the middle of one service, the rabbi singing a bit of Hebrew text to "Loch Lomond." She also recommends that anyone who is in Glasgow make an effort to see the Garnethill Synagogue: if Faberge had designed synagogues instead of Easter eggs, this is what he would have built. Yes, there is Jewish music in Scotland.

Prof. Matilde Mesavage, of the Foreign Language Department, reports « À la recherche du pays de l’enfance: Les Jardins du nord de Souâd Guellouz », Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Conseil International d’Études Francophones, May-June 2002, in Le Maghreb Littéraire, vol 7 no 14, décembre, 2003. « Architechtonique et alchimie dans L’Homme invisible à la fenêtre de Monique Proulx ». Tenth Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, Québec, October 1996. In Identité et altérité dans la Littérature Canadienne, Universitatea de Nord, Baia Mare, Romania, 2003, pp.139-145. Also appearing in Francographies, 2002 – No Spécial 11 Nouvelle Série, pp. 117-124. « Entre le silence et la parole : Les Temps noirs d’Abdelhak Serhane, New Orleans. Conseil International d’Études Francophones, June 2003.

Alan Morrison, Artist-in-Residence, was heard and seen on May 3 featured in recital at the American Guild of Organists Convention in Cleveland, Ohio in June. August took him to Atlanta's Spivey Hall where he performed with internationally acclaimed cellist Andres Diaz (which included a piece "Nocturne" by faculty member

Prof. Daniel Crozier). He then went to Miami to make a new CD/DVD on the new spectacular Ruffatti pipe organ at Church of the Epiphany. September includes three solo recitals in PA and FL and a recital with Rollins faculty member Susan Goldman (cello) as well as performing on the Faculty Showcase Recital.

Prof. Alan Nordstrom, of the English Department, published in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science ( September 2003) his 13-page verse dialogue between Sight and Insight, called "Is There More?"

Prof. Gail Sinclair, of the English Department, presented the following papers: "Icebergs in Florida: The Hemingway Aesthetic in New Places" at the College English Association National Conference in April, 2003. "Fitzgerald and Parenthood: Daddy's got to Preach, An Epistolary Epistemology" at the American Literature National Conference in May, 2003. Session Chair: "Hemingway in Florida" at the College English Association National Conference in April, 2003.

Prof. Paul Stephenson, of the Biology Department, presented a poster at the annual meeting of the America Society of Plant Biologists in Honolulu in July. The poster was titled "Investigation of hydrolytic enzymes present in pitcher fluid of Nepenthes burkei."

Prof. Lisa Tillmann, of the Communication Department, presented a paper called "Hands" at the meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in Atlanta in August.

Prof. Wenxian Zhang, of the Olin Library, published "Academic Outreach: Providing Instructional Support at Rollins College Archives." in Florida Archivist, Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 2003 issue.